that is your worst nightmar imagining what is happening to your child a note with big demands left by mysterious kidnapper who seemed to know all, se all. they are watching the house and then the victim hersel calls. her mom jumping into work with police, would hand over th ransom herself if i didn t jump the mone properly, that would be the en of her she dropped the cash all right but who picked it up that s where everything went wrong? that s where everything wen wrong. kidnapping case about to go way off script her story did not mak sense. what was really going on? i ve been a cup for 11 year and i blush when i listen to the tape a story with more twists an turns in the florida roads trying to find this missin mom. this case was not going t turn out like a lot of peopl assumed. thanks for joining us i m lester holt. whenever someone is kidnappe it triggers a race against tim as police often joined by th victims family begin a frantic search that s w
enforcement effort that wa working around the clock t save his wife. how did he feel about bein shut out of that it made him uncomfortable, think. he didn t understand it. nobody understood it so we mov forward. quinn s mother would make the next money drop, it was an unlikely role for the 62 yea old grandmother. a manager at a walmart, and dog breeder on the side. i was very concerned that i i didn t drop the mone properly that that would be th end for quinn. what s in your background prepared you for what you ar about to go through? i guess just being a mother trying to protect your children despite her nerves, gai sikes was pressed into service at around 10:30 am, th kidnappers instructed queens mom to go to my colors landing an area long the beach and there she would find further instructions in a bathroom she left her daughter s house, the money was in a blue ba along with a tracking device courtesy of the fbi. at the location, quinn s mothe found the designated bathro
people are these i told you, you go to the crap shack and there s a huge talking on listen to me. hello? for the first time, everyon heard the voice of one of th kidnappers was anybody following you know. if anybody follows you yo know it happens. what s? i m sorry? hello? when you hear that guys voice on the phone, it changes everything absolutely. she said it is thre albanian s, and we have a male there. at last a solid lead, but everyone, including the fbi jeanne casey was perplexed ove why the kidnappers were stil asking for the money didn t they have it? they pulled into a ga station, not far from th restaurant after they ve don little driving around. as we re sitting aroun
planned. all right, i talked to he first. i see her and she walks across and gets in my car ma am, i m making the decisions. not you. no, i am going to see m daughter and i m gonna have he in my car. i ve got your money. let me see my daughter and i want her in my car do you understand? was this at last the end of this ordeal? it was not, because th kidnappers never showed an quinn s mom returned home. that is when investigators realized they had a ne problem. the story of quinn gray disappearance broke on the local news, a stor
abducted by armed kidnappers days later a florida mom has been suddenly freed. but for everyone who loves her and the investigators who ve been trying to find her, i isn t over, there s anothe shock in store here again, josh mankiewicz. when gray had finally bee released after three days of captivity, when she was brough to the fbi s jacksonvill headquarters, quinn starte blaming her husband, putting her through the whole ordeal right now, i feel like my husband wanted me did. he said that if you read i only given the money to th kidnappers on that first night she was abducted, she migh have been set free, much earlier. as it turned out, investigators have bee suspicious of quinn s husband, from the very beginning. sheriff david short, first